Scott Thomas, Esq. Kuhner Thomas, P.C. Email Us 9400 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1215 Dallas, Texas 75231 Phone: 214-742-6400 Fax: 214-363-2545

Kuhner | Thomas, P.C. – Serious Divorce Lawyers in Dallas, Texas

Not every marriage ends happily ever after. If your marriage has become insupportable due to discord, conflict, or irreconcilable differences between you and your spouse, you may be considering divorce as an option. If you find yourself the victim of neglect, physical or emotional abuse, substance abuse, financial negligence, or adultery, you may have decided that you want out of your marriage. Although marriage is an honored institution, sometimes people do need to consider divorce as a way to get back on track and get a fresh start with their lives.

Experienced Matrimonial Attorneys

If you are considering divorcing your spouse, or if you have been served with a divorce petition, you need an experienced divorce lawyer to guide you through the process. If you and your spouse have acquired property, monetary assets or debts, or if you or your spouse owned property or debts prior to entering into the marriage, you need an attorney who will make sure that you walk away with the fair and equitable division of assets to which you are entitled. If you and your spouse have children, you need an attorney who will help you work out a possession and visitation schedule that will allow you to continue to be involved in your child’s education, growth, and development, and who will ensure that you receive the proper amount of child support. If you believe unsupervised visitation with your spouse puts your child at risk of abuse or neglect, you need an attorney who will aggressively fight for the best interests of your child.

Fair and Fast Resolution

If you and your spouse are at odds with one another, you want the guidance and counsel of an experienced family lawyer who can bring everybody to the table and get your differences worked out, so that you and your spouse can part ways quickly and cleanly. If an agreement cannot be worked out, or if your spouse insists on being unreasonable, you can take comfort in knowing that you have a skilled matrimonial lawyer who will aggressively represent you in court, present your case in the best possible light, and fight to get you the resolution that you deserve.

Meet DONALD SCOTT THOMAS, III (“SCOTT”)

Please call 214-742-6400 to talk to Donald Scott Thomas III and find out how he can help you with your situation, or e-mail him at scottthomas@kuhnerthomas.com.

Attorney Thomas has practiced family law in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Scott focuses his practice largely on divorce, but has also achieved excellent results for his clients in other areas of family law, including:

• Custody modification and enforcement
• Child support modification and enforcement (private and Attorney General suits)
• Grandparent intervention
• Child protective services/involuntary termination of parental rights
• Protective orders
• Child adoption
• Appeals

Scott has garnered tremendous loyalty among his current and former clients for his approach to resolving family disputes. Scott aggressively seeks to ensure that his clients obtain the best results possible under the circumstances, while at the same time not losing sight of what is often most important to the client: resolving their disputes advantageously with as little unnecessary psychological toll, financial expense, and disruption among family members, namely children, as possible.

A third generation lawyer, Scott lives to be in the courtroom and has actively sought to encourage and instruct trial and appellate advocacy among law school students. Scott served as a judge in the 2006 Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Southwest Regional at the University of Texas School of Law and as a judge in the 2007 University of Texas School of Law Spring Intramural Mock Trial Competition Quarterfinals.

Scott Thomas attended Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas, where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 2004. Scott returned to his native Austin and started his own law practice the following fall, where he practiced family and criminal law until joining Kuhner | Thomas, P.C. in 2007. During law school, Scott served as a Judicial Intern to the Honorable Federico G. Hinojosa, Justice of the 13th Court of Appeals of Texas – Corpus Christi (Edinberg), as a law clerk at the Austin law firm of Minton, Burton, Foster & Collins, P.C., as a law clerk at the Dallas law firm of Fitzpatrick& Hagood, P.C. and for Robert R. Smith, Attorney at Law (now Fitzpatrick, Hagood, Smith & Uhl, L.L.P.). He also served as a Student Attorney at Legal Aid of North Texas in Dallas.

Practice Areas: Family Law

Languages: Spanish

Bar Admissions: 2004, Texas

Law School: Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 2004

College: University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Spanish Language, 2000

Member: State Bar of Texas; Dallas Bar Association

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